hey ya'll. i've been waiting for this, this, this!!!!
Worked on this case when i was on internship at Colin Ng and Partners and i was the one taking the minutes and WE WOOONNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (not that our winning had anything to do with our minutes or that i even contributed in any substantive way)
and get this. it was a Court of Appeal case (Highest Court in the WWS i.e. World-Wide-Singapore). the lawyer who fought the case was my roomie for 2 weeks (or rather, i barged into her personal space during the internship and received free entertainment from her). the lawyer has 2 kids, is pregnant and is only 26. and she's FEMALE! although i think the fact that she's 26 and pregnant makes it alot cooler. she was the first among her peers to fight a CoA case.
oh. my. goodness.
so cool right. she's as cool as my 26 year old Prof who looks like a Girl's Generation Member.
I KIDD YOU NOT! of coz her eye bags (i.e. My PROF not the lawyer) are alittle darker and she's a little curvier. and she's not just cool coz she's pretty. she's BRILLIANT. when she was teaching me an unfathomable subject a year back, she was an associate in a law firm AND teaching as an adjunct faculty of, and i repeat, an UNFATHOMABLE SUBJECT, as her hobby. AND she could answer ANY question we threw at her. she was crazy witty and funny and deadpan. (she was witty to the point of ppl taking her awesome sarcasm too seriously and being DEAD afraid of her) and so sophisticated. and so open and available. And she actually LIKES the UNFATHOMABLE SUBJECT. (it's called Equity btw. google it. it's unfathomable.)
anyway, this post is not about her. but about Ms. Court of Appeal. she was an adorable and inspiring roommate. 26!!! in the court of appeal!!! in front of 3 of the most brilliant minds in WWS! and whatmore, the opposing lawyer was really quite unpleasant. i thought of a more apt but ruder word to use but decided not to.
i still recall the day before her CoA hearing. She seemed quite contemplative that afternoon after lunch so i didn't talk to her, thinking she must be busy tying up the loose ends for the case. she broke the silence at 3pm, exclaiming how the SIngapore Academy of Law was giving out free tickets for Salt but she missed it. and so we talked.
"Eh. how come you're looking at SAL's website? Aren't you busy preparing for tomorrow?" I asked.
"Huh? no lah."
"Really ah? You looked so busy for the last hour i didn't dare talk to you."
"Oh. I was reading wikipedia about Marilyn Monroe."
and den we LOL-ed. good times.
she was really so cool.
and she invited me to sit in the court with her. INSIDE. to take minutes.
she made me feel like a worthy intern.
what a lawyer. what a friend.
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